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90. THE WRONG MAR. CHAPTER XIV. LIFE’S CLOSING SCENE. “* After life's fitful fever he sleeps well."'—Brron. : TuE bodies were found but a few feet from each other,crvel- ly bruised and torn. Their embrace had been sundered in the = escent, but fragments of the hunter's garments, still held in ‘ the clenched fingers of Sediley, attested the convulsive tenacity : of his gripe. From Overton's body all appearance of life had =~ departed. The old man was also insensible, but showed some signs of life, and after a little time opened his eyes and appeared to have some vague glimmerings of consciousness. His mind seemed to be running on his niece, whose name he mumbled faintly, and it was thought, from the tenor of some incoherent hhrases that fell from his lips, that he fancied himself descend- the river with her in a boat. e inhabitants of Adrianopolis generally entertained a great respect for Enoch Sedley, and this was partly shown in the : sympathy they expressed for his present. fate, and the readiness * and gentleness with which they raised his lacerated body from the earth, and bore it toward the town. They were yet on their way, and had reached within a quarter of a mile of the block- house, when a near and loud explosion—so loud that it was heard for fifty miles down the Ohio—burst upon their ears; the: round rocked beneath their feet as if heaved by an earthquake. Rane of the p were thrown tu the earth—others fell down in terror—and al) turned their eyes in amazement to the block- = house, whence the deafening shock proceeded. A vivid gush 3 of ve tat traein from it 3 tes hg cone ber clouds, ; and m ents of t ling—logs, stones— ‘were performin high curves through air, which was reddened = for miles around by the intense and sulphurous blaze. While the terrified spectators were still looking in blank amazement m the scene, an enormous shaft of timber, scorched snd * blackened by the flames, fell endwise to the earth but a few feet $5, before them, and with such force that it was driven nearly half ‘a its length into the soil. of the ruin were scattered G far wide, and the two who were waiting in the boat turned (8 pe Peceegtnmtaypetypeetla eb Rents com =~ 5 the cinders, stones and sand sprinkling into the water - round them. When the sudden brightness of the explosion passed away, the earth for some minutes seemed wrapped | profound css, 80 feeble and sickly was the light of the ‘moon in contrast with the intense gusb of flame, which had e